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-: My name is Bayo Ogundipe.
I am the head of the Department of Engineering
at James Madison University.
I've worked with VentureWell on a number of projects.
One of those is the infusing sustainability
into the curriculum.
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How might we actually get students to really grapple
with the complexity of sustainability
across multiple disciplines and do it
in an effective way that we already have the structures for.
Having access to modules and tools and techniques,
guide them through problem solving
and imagine new possibilities.
And so that's one of the most impactful projects
that I continue to work with VentureWell.
Incorporating inclusive innovation and climate change
and sustainability issues in engineering,
one of the more challenging aspects of it is that there are
a number of approaches that would require
non-technical solutions.
Challenging the traditional curriculum.
The way to do that is to bring other people to the table.
Diverse opinions is absolutely necessary.
You need to all step outside of our silos,
and we need to find the right language
to talk to one another.
The only way we can do that is to open up the doors,
invite more people to the table,
and just get those ideas going.
That gets me really excited because we are now able
to see things in ways
that we were not actually thinking about before.
VentureWell has been and continues to be
a significant resource.
There's an element of what VentureWell does
which really catalyzes this human ingenuity,
gets people pumped up about things and understanding
that they are actually working on things that matter.
That I think is where we are going to actually come up
with the solution that will save all of us.
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